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Police say six people have been arrested for beating up 50-year-old Muslim man to death

Berlin added Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to a list of so-called safe countries

Obama welcomed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to the White House and both men promised closer cooperation

Obama says ready to work with Russia, Iran to find a political mechanism to begin a transition process

Im not the pink elephant in the room anymore, says Brown

Taliban have laid landmines around Kunduz, slowing movement of Afghan convoys driving to the city

Pilot project is slated to begin next year, with three "drone-port" buildings due for completion by 2020

Doctors have also expressed alarm over the number of patients having ingested toxic substances

Modi claimed 1.5 million rupees could be given to every citizen if illegal funds were brought back from overseas

Devices will feature the new Android operating system Marshmallow, which allows for fingerprint sensors for unlocking

Snowden pulls in more than 171,000 followers in about an hour but follows only one

Gates held onto the number-one spot in the annual list for the 22nd straight year with net worth of $76 billion

Bashar al-Assad's fate is key bone of contention between Washington and Syrian leader's Russian and Iranian allies

'We now have great opportunities to fully investigate existence of life on Mars, says NASA official

Meanwhile, a game in which players have to conduct drone strikes is freely available

Akhter Mansoor praises Taliban 'victory'; asks fighters to offer special 'thanksgiving prayers'

NATO had planned to withdraw all forces by the end of next year

Afghan troops backed by US air support have launched counter-offensive to retake the city

The reforms apply to the 4.5 million foreign workers registered with the labour ministry

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says we have only heard about IS in Bangladesh but we have not found any of them

Nadiya Jamir Hussain says the response to the programme has shown how tolerant and accepting British society is

The handshake would be the first known between a US president and a top Iran official since Islamic revolution in 1979

Judicial source says judge Mohammad al-Duaij ordered four to pay bail of $1,650 each

The coalition called for an independent investigation into the incident

More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters representing ethnic minorities

UberBOAT has teamed with Turkish boat company Navette and lets people order the boats the way that they do Uber cars

Germany has re-imposed border controls and curbed rail traffic from Austria in an effort to slow an influx of migrants

Sweden has one of the highest differences in employment levels between natives and immigrants in the OECD

Turkish warplanes have pounded PKK bases in several regions in northern Iraq

If the numbers are as high as suggested, this may be the single deadliest incident since the start of the conflict

At UN General Assembly, Russian president calls for a broad UN-backed coalition to fight Islamic State militants

Li said he resolutely supported China's path to reform and opening up

The soldiers were transferred to pre-trial detention on charges of terrorism, waging an aggressive war against Ukraine

The accused couple will start being questioned in court on Thursday with 84 witnesses and 60 experts to testify

Spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham rebel group says regime continuing and Assad staying is failure

Beyond the confirmed 228 dead a further 227 Iranians were injured and 246 are missing

Mazher Mahmood’s undercover work posing as "fake sheikh" has led to a number of high-profile criminal court cases

The hardline Orban said last week that Hungary aimed to seal the frontier

Company spokesman says number is part of 11 million vehicles worldwide that VW has said are affected by scandal

RBI surprises analysts by lowering benchmark repo rate to 6.75 per cent from 7.25 per cent with immediate effect

Nothing was planned at all, and it just happened in a few seconds, said an official

Beijing's envoy says Chinese government opposes terrorism, discrimination against races and any form of extremism

Clashes began when the murder of a Muslim man sparked reprisals by Muslims on a Christian neighborhood

Prince writes letters calling for removal of King Salman in light of Makkah tragedies, Yemen war

Sanctuary will prevent fishing, mineral exploitation in an area where scientists regularly discover new marine species

Australia has one of world's highest incidences of shark attacks, will test electrical barriers powered by wave energy

Beijing has scolded procrastinating local governments and threatened to punish them by recalling their budgets

Official says they have broken Indonesian immigration law and could be jailed for up to five years if found guilty

Government official says he was confident talks in New Delhi would "take deal to final stage"

Abdullah Abdullah asks Pakistan to keep its promise to crack down on extremists